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Troutmouth: The Two Careers of Hugh Clegg

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Hugh Clegg (1898-1979) was once a few of the most notable Mississippi historical figures all through the 1920s through the 1960s. Born in Mathiston, Mississippi, he was once a member of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 1926 to 1954, all through which time he rose to the top leadership and worked in an instant under Director J. Edgar Hoover and Associate Director Clyde Tolson. In his second career, as executive assistant to Chancellor J. D. Williams at the University of Mississippi from 1954 to 1969, he was once in a top leadership position before and all through the civil rights crises in the State of Mississippi and at Ole Miss.

While with the Bureau, Clegg’s responsibilities included leading the search for a number of the most dangerous gangsters in the country, including John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson, the Barker gang, and Alvin Karpis. He established the FBI’s National Training Academy and coordinated the hunt for atom bomb spy Harry Gold, collaborator with German spy Emil Klaus Fuchs. He was once sent to England by Director Hoover prior to the outbreak of World War II to study British intelligence agencies.

A close friend of a number of the leading federal and state elected officials and of members of the USA Supreme Court, Clegg was once well known to many in power. At the University of Mississippi he was once the prime contact between the university and the federal government all through the desegregation crises of Clennon King and James Meredith. He was once also assigned the lead role in combating the efforts of Mississippi politicians to discredit and eliminate faculty members when scholars were thought “too liberal” and subsequently a threat to the state.

Through a Freedom of Information request from the FBI, creator Ronald F. Borne obtained thousands of pertinent documents. As well as, he mined Clegg’s oral history and an unpublished book manuscript. Borne interviewed close relations, colleagues, and friends to reveal a portrait of a distinguished, loyal man who significantly shaped the training procedures for the FBI and then mediated the University of Mississippi’s conflicts with both state officials and the federal government.

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